The main point of this book is to make you think. I may have even preferred that the story was written as a nonfiction account of the experiment, like Columbine. In the back of my mind, always, I was wondering what the real story was. I really wanted to know how far the experiment would go and how the students would react. While it isn’t the most eloquent of books, I couldn’t put it down. (Yet, I was surprised how reigned in the story ultimately is.) There are still elements of truth to it, so that it is used today in classrooms both in the US and in Germany to augment teaching about the Holocaust. Fairly quickly, it was picked up as a TV special and then that special was novelized in 1981 by Morton Rhue (who is actually Todd Strasser and it is printed both ways).Īs is to be expected, the story got crazier and crazier as it went from short story to TV to novel. In the 70s, the teacher, Ron Jones, wrote a fictionalized short story, “The Third Wave,” about what had happened. The teacher was surprised by his class’s response to a Holocaust video, so he started a club to prove to the students that the Holocaust could happen again and could happen to anyone (in essence).Īs the tagline reveals, the experiment goes too far.įirst there was the experiment, which the book says was significantly scary enough that it wasn’t talked about for years. Why? Because The Wave is based on the true story of a California classroom in 1969. It is a novel, but it hits the reader more like journalism and is read largely during social studies education.
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